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PBS News Hour - Full Show

May 1, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Friday on the News Hour, Trump rejects Iran's latest proposal to end the war. Prosecutors release new video showing the gunman at the White House Correspondents' Dinner breaching security. The battle for the Senate comes into sharper focus with a prominent contender's exit in Maine. Plus, Palestinian and Israeli authors of a new book about peace discuss their work to bridge divides. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. And I'm Amna Nawaz on the news hour tonight. President Trump

0:09.3

rejects Iran's latest proposal to end the war. Prosecutors released new videos showing the suspect at the

0:16.0

White House Correspondence Dinner breaching the security perimeter. And Palestinian and Israeli authors of a new book about peace discuss their work to bridge divides.

0:26.4

We are together. We are not against each other. It's not Israelis versus Palestinians.

0:31.7

It's those of us who believe in justice, inequality, and peace versus those who don't yet.

0:48.3

Thank you. equality and peace versus those who don't yet. Welcome to the News Hour. Iran today submitted a new proposal to the U.S.

0:53.1

aimed at breaking a diplomatic deadlock.

0:56.1

But President Trump rejected it and said he's reviewing new military options to relaunch the war.

1:01.7

It's been 60 days since the war began, which means today is a legal deadline for the administration to seek congressional authorization.

1:10.0

But the White House informed Congress it didn't need to get its approval because the war had

1:14.4

been, quote, terminated during the current ceasefire.

1:17.4

Nick Schiffrin's here.

1:18.2

He's been following all of this.

1:19.5

So Nick, tell us more about what the president said today.

1:21.6

The president not only rejected Iran's new proposal.

1:25.3

He expressed a deep skepticism that Iran could ever submit a proposal that would satisfy him.

1:31.4

So they want to make a deal, but I don't, I'm not satisfied with it. So we'll see what happens.

1:37.0

They've made strides, but I'm not sure if they ever get there.

1:43.6

There's tremendous discord. There's tremendous discord.

1:45.9

There's tremendous, they're having a tremendous problem getting along with each other in Iran.

1:51.4

So on the one hand, no deal and little prospect for a deal.

1:54.7

But the president also acknowledged yesterday, receiving a briefing from his top Middle East

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